[lug] boot eSata (David L. Anselmi)

[Zan Lynx]

On 11/28/2009 12:54 PM, Aaron DeWolf wrote:
> esata is slow compared to usb3. If you haven't bought yet, wait a bit
> for more manufacturers to come out with usb3 devices.
> As far as booting from esata, if your PC's BIOS shows the esata device
> in it's boot order, you should be set.

As far as I know, eSATA is SATA with a different cable. That's it. So 
it's speed is the same as an internal SATA drive.

USB-3 is supposedly using the same signaling protocols as SATA 6 Gb. So 
yes it is fast. But I fail to see how it is going to be faster than SATA 
since the signaling is the same.